Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-25
A CLAlRVOYANT HEN.
What She Saw Just Before Thanks
giving.

What She Saw just Before Thanks
giving.
We never know just what is going on in
the minds of those about us. If we did cor
tentment would be much rarer than it is, and
apprehension and anxiety would hold the
very earth up by the ears. Yes, it is fine
thing we are not all mind readers.
New thought has a way of diffusing itself
all around, while certain people who keep
the windows of their minds closed to shut it
out are very comfortable in the belief that
nobody is entertaining it because they are
not
1t was Just so at the Terry farm. The
people of the house had no idea what was
going on in the fowl minds about them. The
truth was, new tangled ideas had gained Won
derful Roadway in the barnyard. Many Of
the hens were pronounced equal suffragists,
and went about talking equal rights in way
that would have got them into serious trou-
BILE twenty-five years ago. if they had been
alive at that time. A few of the biggest
Drained cocks espoused the cause. Two
of the mediocres also took it up and
enjoyed themselves amazingly making
speeches. If they had fault it was
that they were too fond of oratory.
When the hens had a convention these
two seasoned fowls were always there, and
took front seats on the platform. The mo-
ment the meeting opened both bobbed up to
talk. The president, one of the most intel
lectual hens in the whole state and also
blessed with high executive ability, always
found it difficult to decide which one to recog-
nize, so simultaneously did they spring to
their feet. Before the first one was through
speaking the other one was up and ready to
begin at the end of his rivals last word. In
this way they monopolized the entire time of
every meeting, and famous birds from a dis
lance who had been invited to the meetings
to speak went home with all their music in
them. The hens didn't like this bit, but
being hens and not ROSTERS they were obliged
to 60 slow in moving against the enemy.
These two strong womans rights cocks
were not wholly consistent. In their speeches
they soundly berated all men who did not
make bold stand in favor of woman suf-
frage: but it was whispered around that they
were the last fowls to get up and give their
seats to hens in street car, and that when
they employed hens to scratch by the day for
them they paid them merely enough to keep
soul and body together.
But at the beginning of autumn suffrage
talk rather gave place to occultism. There
was perfect wave of metaphysical interest
in the land, and it found fine soil in the
brains of these advanced birds. Mind cure,
Buddhism, theosophy, clairvoyance and all
phases of occultism blossomed like the rose.
So absorbed were many of these feathered
disciples Of new thought that they scarcely
ate any of the unusually tempting food given
them with a view to increasing their corpu.
lency for Thanksgiving Braced up by the
belief that they were in possession of mighty
secrets unknown and UNDECIDED by the rest OF
the world, they went about with their heads
quite in another world. Indeed, some pro
gressed so far as to believe and assert that
they need never die if they didn't want to-